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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "million pounds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- rev_frdonaldchris@winning.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Yahoo Graet Offer! <unitednations_1@att.net>
Reply-To: rev_frdonaldchris@winning.com
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:25:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CONGRATULATION!!!_YOU_HAVE_WON_=28GBP=A31=2C000=2C000=2E00?=
=?iso-8859-1?Q?_=29?=

Yahoo! Inc.

Customer Care

701 First Avenue

Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

USA.

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of One Million

Pounds (GBP£1,000,000.00 ) in the ongoing YAHOO! Lottery promotion

which is organized by YAHOO! LOTTERY INC for the introduction and

Launching of the New YAHOO ! BETA MAIL which all YAHOO! subscribers

are required to switch to.

YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail

addresses of the people that are active online, among the Millions

that subscribe at YAHOO!, HOTMAIL and others we only selected THREE

candidates as our winners after undergoing the random selection

process through Electronic Balloting System (E.B..S) without the

candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people

selected.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You are to contact the Claim Agent Rev. Fr. Donald Chris who will

issue you a clearance paper as a winning certificate approved and

certified from our Regional office in London, and your prize money

will be released to you from any of our regional promotion banks as

directed by the claim agent.

YAHOO! Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from

date of Draw Notification in which Prize has been won .

Note: (Any prize not claimed within this period 15 days) will be forfeited.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:

Batch number.....................YBM-EBS-390AF

Reff number...........................YBM-EBS-719AF

Winning number...............YBM-EBS-798AF

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European

Regional booklet representative office in London as indicated in your

play coupon. In view of this, your (One Million Pounds Sterling) will

be released to you by our payment Regional offices in EUROPEAN PAYMENT

CENTER Precisely London.

CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT HERE

Our European Fiduciary Claims Agent:

Rev. Fr. Donald Christian

Official Email: rev_frdonaldchris@winning.com

Enjoy Online Lottery

YAHOO!MAIL BETA LOTTERY APPROVED

Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him so

that he will proceed further for your prize claim immediately:

PERSONAL INFORMATION

1. Full Name:.....................................................

2. Nationality/Religion:......................................

3. Contact Address:...................... ...................................

4. Telephone Number:.........................................

5. Fax Number:.......................................

6. Date of Birth:............................................

7. Occupation.............................................

8. Age.....................................................

9. Sex...............................................

10. Alternative E-mail address:............................

11. Next of Kin of the Beneficiary in case..............................

You are advised to keep your winning information confidential to avoid

double claim and abuse of the program until your prize is paid to you.

We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account. Now take the

next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!

This prize will be released to you from any of our promotional banks

as will be directed by the London Claim/verification agent.

Yahoo! UK & Ireland

Copyright © 2010 Yahoo Inc!. All rights reserved

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